I’m not surprised you feel that way. I had an early menopause aged 32 and an ovary removed a few years later and nobody even mentioned HRT to me and at that age I wasn’t aware of all the trauma that lay ahead!
The gynaecologist consultant who started me on systemic HRT plus vagifem & Ovestin cream, told me that the studies done looking into the link between cancer and HRT were indeed flawed, and the risk is nowhere as great as they said at the time. In any event he said if the benefits outweigh the risks with any type of treatment or medication it’s worth trying.
It’s never too late to benefit from HRT - I know I could never manage without it - I tried and it was disastrous! I use the patches (as I’ve had blood clots in the past and the patches don’t carry that risk) vagifem daily (have done for many years) and estrogen cream twice a week at the moment but hoping to stop the cream when the patches kick in properly. It’s all a bit trial and error but you should be able to have whatever you need to be comfortable. There is no clinical reason not to use these things daily if necessary. I’ve read somewhere that you’d have to use vagifem every day for a year to have used these things equivalent of one oral HRT pill!
